PORTLAND — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s decision that banned a transgender child from using the girls’ bathroom in Orono schools. In a 5-1 decision, the justices said that Superior Court Justice William Anderson erred when he ruled in favor of what is now Riverside RSU 26. “Our opinion […]
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Orono man charged in stabbing attack
UPDATED 9:17 A.M.: ORONO — A 22-year-old Orono man is facing multiple charges in connection with a stabbing at a Park Street apartment over the weekend. Dorian Guerin, 22, is accused of attempted murder and elevated aggravated assault, Orono police Chief Josh Ewing said Monday morning. Guerin is being held at the Penobscot County Jail […]
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Man falls off roof, dies
OLD TOWN — A 32-year-old Bangor man was killed Thursday after he fell from the roof of a building he was working on. The victim’s name was withheld Thursday night to give family members a chance to make their notifications, Old Town police Sgt. Michael Hashey said in a news release. The accident happened shortly […]
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Orono man dies after rear-ending school bus in Augusta
AUGUSTA (AP) — Police say the driver of a pickup truck that rear-ended a school bus in Augusta has died, but no one on the bus was hurt. Police Lt. Christopher Massey says the truck driven by 60-year-old Herbert LeBreton, of Orono, struck the rear of the bus at about 2:15 p.m. Tuesday and got […]
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Suspicious package in Orono turns out to be discarded Halloween costume
ORONO — A suspicious package turned out to be a discarded Halloween costume once it had been exploded by the Bangor police bomb squad, Police Chief Josh Ewing said Sunday. Ewing said Orono police received a report midmorning Sunday that the item, which was about the size of a cereal box and appeared to have […]
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Orono Bog Boardwalk project an opportunity to teach out-of-staters forest not dark, mysterious place
BANGOR — Ethan Harding had to dissuade the “from away” members of his Maine Conservation Corps team of the notion that “killer bears” populate the north Maine woods. “Some of them think the forest is a dark, mysterious place they shouldn’t go into,” Harding, 19, of Jackson said Saturday. “I had to show them that […]
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Field Hockey: No. 3 Ramblers edge No. 6 Red Riots
Sure, the defending Eastern Class C champions won 11 games. But they did so in dramatic fashion, winning seven of those 11 games by a single goal. “It’s how we’ve been playing all season, and it’s been killing me,” Winthrop coach Jessica Merrill said. The important part, though, was that they won those games. And […]
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50 years later, Mainers remember JFK’s speech in Orono a month before his assassination
ORONO — Three children squirmed their way to the front of a crowd of 15,000 people to sit close to the stage where President John F. Kennedy spoke at the University of Maine on Oct. 19, 1963. The children, from neighboring French Island in Old Town, were excited to be on campus and to see […]
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UMaine stadium to get high-def video scoreboard
ORONO (AP) — The University of Maine’s sports stadium is getting a new high-definition scoreboard next year. The university announced Thursday that UMaine benefactors Phillip and Susan Morse have donated $800,000 to fund the scoreboard as well as support the baseball program. The new scoreboard for UMaine’s football and track and field programs will be […]
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Controversy erupts over plan to cut down Orono’s ‘giant cottonwood’
ORONO — Despite a Facebook movement to save it, the big old cottonwood tree that stands near the intersection of Main Street and Bennoch Road is scheduled to be cut down. The removal of the tree is slated to take place on Tuesday, Orono Town Manager Sophie Wilson said Monday evening. It is being taken […]